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best for forcing; for this purpose they should be taken up and 
planted in proper sized pots, eiiher in the months of September or 
October, as then directed, and protected in garden-fi-ames, till want- 
ed for forcing; but, if the weather permits, you may take them up at 
any time, with balls of earth about their roots, planting one good plant 
in each pot; always observing, to choose those of two or three years 
old, and which are full of bearers. 
Place these pots towards the front of the hot-house, near the 
glasses, and let them have water frequently, especially when they 
are in blossom, and setting young fruit; but observing at these 
times not to water too freely over the flowers, for fear of washing 
off' the impregnating farina, giving it chiefly to the earth in th© 
pots. 
Of Flowering Plants in the Hot-house. 
You may now introduce into this department, many kinds of 
flowering plants, to be forced into bloom at an early season; such 
as honey suckles, African-heaths, double-flowering dwarf almonds, 
and cherries, 6cc, also pels of pinks, carnations, daisies, double 
sweet-williams, rockets, wall and slock-gilly-flowers, 8cc. and pots 
or glasses of any kind of bulbous roots, planted either in earth or 
water, may also be introduced, with a variety of curious annual flow- 
ers, which may be sown in pots, and forwarded there to early per- 
fection. 
